[PATCH v3 07/15] ARM: vexpress: Select the correct SMP operations at run-time

Nicolas Pitre nicolas.pitre at linaro.org
Tue Jan 29 14:26:57 EST 2013


On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, Jon Medhurst (Tixy) wrote:

> On Tue, 2013-01-29 at 02:51 -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > From: Jon Medhurst <tixy at linaro.org>
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy at linaro.org>
> > ---
> 
> Should this patch be split into two. One to introduce the new smp_init
> hook into the generic ARM kernel code, and one to make vexpress use it?
> With, descriptions something like:
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ARM: kernel: Enable selection of SMP operations at boot time
> 
> Add a new 'smp_init' hook to machine_desc so platforms can specify a
> function to be used to setup smp ops instead of having a statically
> defined value.
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ARM: vexpress: Select multi-cluster SMP operation if required
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------

That certainly makes sense.  Are you willing to split your patch as such 
and send me the result?


Nicolas



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